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J LOCAL j |j ___ AN UNFORTUNATE ACtlDENT. Mr. R. S. McCombs, had the misfortune to lose his left arm in an ac" * * 1-0. 1. TT^ cident at his cane mm last wee*., uc was busy around his mill and in some way his sleeve became caught in the mill and pulled his arm in and crushed it up to the elbow. It took two negroes some time to free the arm from the mill and then Mr. McCombs started to town for medical assistance. Dr. Gambrell ?nd Dr. I Fressly attended to him and his arm was amputated below his elbow. "He was very weak from shock ?nd pain afterwards and spent the day in Dr. Gambrell's office, being taken home late in the afternoon. Mr. McCombs is one of Abbeville I County's most energetic farmers and j his host of friends regret this acci-1 dent. GIVING A PARTY. Invitations have been received in i Abbeville to a reception to be given J l>y Mrs. H. G. Anderson, Saturday j afternoon, from four to six o'clock,j -at her home on East River street, in : , Anderson. This reception is in i honor of Miss Anna Varina Tribble, | "who is to be one of Anderson's fall i brides. I Mrs. Anderson made her home in Abbeville some years ago and her Viorc VnAW tVllQ Will All CI 11J illdiuo tlWi V niiv ? vmvv ..... , be a charming reception, complete in every detail. KEEPING HIS POWDER DRY. William, the second son of Mr. and Ivirs. J. A. Hill, on Greenville street, , happened to a painful accident last Thursday. He had been keeping seme gun-powder for quite awhile ??nd he "lit 'er up" to see if it would burn. He knows now, and the knowledge cost him two painfully burned arms, and damaged nis good looks to the extent of losing his eyebrows and some of his bangs. BORN At Abbeville, to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Chalmers. Sept. 22, a son. The pictures at the opera ^louse Friday night and Saturday were unusually good. Manager Goldstein has contracted for a series of Mutual Features. All these pictures are new and are of a first class order. They run from five to six reel?, which gives a show of about the right ^ length. Friday night and Saturday "night the programs were filled out v ith good comedy which sent the audience home in a good humor with flift ninfnro cVi#1W_ CUClliOCX V VO OlIU W1AV j/4VVU4 v CMV www A committee has been appointed by the Government and has m?de a report to London on the German air raids and on the bombardment of H urepool, Scarborough and Whitby. Ihe number of claims reported for personal injuries are six hundred and ninety-seven of which one hundred and seventy-eight were fatil. The number of claims for dam&ged property which have been investigated rre ten thousand and seventy. Death decreased the government's civil war pensions roll nearly ten per cent during last year, according to the annual report of the commissioner of pensions. A total of three hundred and ninety-six thousand three- hundred and seventy union veterans remain on the roll which is 9 xhirty-three thousand, two hundred :md fifty-five less than a yoar ago. , Ihe pension payment decreased about fifteen millions. The DuPont Co., the greatest powuer manufactux-ing company in the United States, has applied to the Secretary of State for Domestication papers. This company has large orders for supplying the allies with munitions of war and they will establish a plant in Georgetown. The company is capitalized at two hundred and forty millions. The schools of the entire slate so far have opened with a larger enrollment than usual. The colleges, in spite of the hard times, aie filled to overflowing. Over in Spartanburg the student body has designated n green skull skin cap for the freshf ttt _ a* 1 A 4-1* A men OI wonuru anu me licsmcs ^ have rebelled. In the British army a battalion of 1,018 men requires for its daily rations 635 two-pound loaves. 127 . pounds of bacon, more than 31 pounds of salt and nearly 13 pounds of pepper?to mention only a few items. NEWS I ; ' ; i Mrs. A. B. Morse leaves today for ? Savannah where she will visit friends v I ;iiid relatives for two Week?. She ^ I will be accompanied by her little ^ daughter, Emily, who has so recently L , recovered from a case of typhoid I levtr. V A former secretary of Bishop Nelson of the Episcopal church of Atlanta, has given himself up in New a York saying that he has stolen fifteen P hundred dollars from the Bishop in 1:1 j the past eight years. The Bishop ..-ays that he must be mistaKen and ' - - T% that the man is in bad healtn. & N Cliff Godfrey, a young white man Iv] who lives near Enoree, shot and killed tc Robert Hanna, a white tenant on his place last Saturday. "Hannn was in debt to Godfrey and Mrs. Godfrey,u: tuys that she can think of no other h if-ason for the killing. 1 b( Ivi Mrs. Herman Benton nnd Miss \v Fannie Stark have returned from ai pleasant stay of several weeks in the j mountains of North Carolina. The ai ! little Benton baby is much improved al fin health. j.j The diamond ring will be given iiway at the opera house Thursday tr night at nine o'clock. Be on hand is, with your coupons and see if you are the lucky holder. If you are you get tne nne diamond ring. 1! fi Rev. Mr. Swope, from Shelby, N. C preached in the Baptist church last Sabbath morning and afternoon. He a] [leased all his hearers. While in M Abbeville he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Stark. | ? h' Mrs. Fannie Milford has returned a: to Abbeville after a visit to her brother, Dr. Ross Killingsworth and her sister, Miss Corrie Killingsworth, in Columbia. ^ w Mrs. Thos. Popf is in the city from Kinards, visiting her parent?, Chief *1 Tustice and Mrs. E. B. Gary. She s-1 is accompanied by her handsome .,*oung son. I w Mrs. Killingsworth has been spend- 01 ing the past three weeks in the country with her relatives and friends, while her daughter, Mrs. Fannie Mil- oJ ford, was visiting in Columbia. I Mr. B. P. Greene has begnn work on his house which will take the place ^ of the one recently burned down. The P house will be after the same plan as the old one. fi Mrs. Ozie Nickles of Hodges, was c< .'n the city Monday buying stylish - inings irom our munnery stores, one was accompanied by her good looking young son. Mrs. W. G. Harper has returned from Columbia, where she went to visit Dr. Harper. He is under the :-are of a physician and is recovering his health. / | Mrs. J. D. Bundy came down from Monroe Saturday and is spending a week visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Earksdale. Mr. and Mrs. Bundy have just returned from an extended tour through the West. T")r. D. G. Mabnn was in 1he citv Monday. This is his first trip to ! Abbeville as traveling representative A the Murray Drug Company. Mrs. Leila Todd was down from i Due West Saturday shopping. She ' was accompanied by her two charming daughters and Miss McUiH. Mr. Joel Perrin has been in the city from Richmond, visiting his relatives, the family of Mr. J. Allen Smith. V Miss Leila Nancy Nance and Prof, .rnmes Moffatt came down from Due West last week and visited at the home of Mrs. Sherard. \ surveyor has been enpaged to survey the proposed new county of Williamston. and work will ho pushed on the proposition. Mrs. L. D. Witt, of Greenville, is in the citv spending- a while with her | fsrents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jamieson. Miss. Imoprene Wilkes, of Laurens, iis in the city visiting Mrs. L. U. Witt 'at the Eureka hotel. | I i i Mrs. J. E. Cochran and Miss Mattie ' | Cochran spent last Friday in the city with Mrs. R. H. Cochran. Mrs. Henry E. Pressly is expected n Abbeville this week for a visit to ler mother, Mrs. J. F. Brad'ey and o attend the marriage of Miss Caroine Gary on the 8th. Mrs Pressly is ust returning from the Mi-jsionary Conference in Atlanta. Mr. William Neel, of Jacksonville, ria., is in Abbeville for an extended isit to his uncle, Mr. Henry Gilliam, fr. Neel has many relatives in Abbeille county, his mother having been liss Maggie Gilliam and his grandather was a brother of Mrs. Joe yon. Miss Esther Graydon goes to Due /est twice a week and takes a spelal course in elocution at the Wolan's College. Miss GrayJon has class at Abbeville which is making rogress in this pleasing accomplishtent. Mrs. B. S. Barnwell and Mrs.J. F. radley, and Messrs Wyatt Aiken and [. R. Plaxco went up to Due West i nnHnv afternoon to see how the >wn was getting along. Mr. James C. Hemphill spent Satrday and Sabbath in Laurens. The ause of Mr. W. L| Bennett has just sen completed after plans made by [r. Hemphill, and on this trip he as looking after two other houses. Mrs. J. A. King, of Cold Springs, .d Mrs. Robt. Sharpe, of near Donds, were in the city Tuesday shopng. New York is; soon to feei the first ?uch of the horrors of war. Reer going up to fifteen cents a can. Miss Nina Wilson was in the city ; om Warrenton this week buying , om our up-to-date millinery stores. Prof, and Mrs. Johnson Kilgore ! re in the city from Clinton, visiting ir. and Mrs. Stuart Miller. Mrs. F. S. Clay has returned to er home in Savannah, after a pleasrit visit to Mrs. Harden. Mrs. Albert Power and Miss Allie [ae Power spent Monday in the city ith relatives. Mrs. R. H. Stevenson r.nd her iree bright children were in the city lopping Saturday. Hon. J. K. Durst, of Greenwood, r.s in the city a few hours Monday n business. Miss Eva Link spent the latter part f the week in Greenwood with her rother, T. Edgar Link, i Mrs. J. C. Klugh is in Duo West! lis week visiting the family of Prof, aul Grier. Mrs. J. B. Harkness is at home :om Atlanta, where she went to onsult a throat specialist. |g||| Take your family and dearest x?_: ]_ menus. How would you like pictures of them in their natural, everyday, familiar surroundings? Step into our store and let us show you how easily you can make good pictures of them and of everything else you care about, with a Premo You need no experience, and these remarkably simple, compact, efficient cameras can be had at from $1.50 to $150.00. Fresh films, paper, chemicals ? everything for photography, always in stock. MeMl'RHAY A FLOURISHING SABBATH SCHOOL. The Sabbath School of the Asso- c ciate Reformed Presbyterian Church, t was reorganized last Sabbath morn- li rig and the classes arranged with a a vitw to getting an interesting and n instructive course of work for the u children. The system of rewards in the way of attendance buttons was inaugurated. Dr. McMurray is the efficient superintendent of the school. MORE SCHOOL BOOKS. s'] i"< Some time ago the Benevolent So- l* ciety asked through the columns of u the Press and Banner for donations of School Books. A very liberal response was the result, but like, Oliver Twist, they want "more." Con- * tributions of first and i'ourth grade hooks will be gratefully received. ^ Phone Mrs. Sam Seal and the books will be called for. cl BISHOP GUERRY PREACHES. a m Bishop Guerry preached in the Episcopal church last Sabbath night ? to a large and interested congrega- ^ lion. The Methodist and the Associated Reformed Presbyterian churches closed their doors that their congregations might hear the Bishop. While in Abbeville he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Foster Barn wen. P FOR BETTER BABIES. i F The Better Baby contest will be held during the Abbeville County Fair and progress is being made on the organization of the committees. This contest is to determine the growth, both mentally and pnysically, and is not a beauty contest. A baby can come in a gingham apron and get as good score as the best dressed ii&by, provided, it is as strong and healthy. AN ICE CREAM SUPPER. F There-will be an ice cream supper at the home of Mr. R. S. Uldrick, Saturday afternoon from five till ten o'clock. This will be for the benefit of Bethlehem church. The public is cordially invited to attend. ^ OFF TO NEW YORK * V Mr. Henrv Gilliam leaves this week ^ for New York, where he goes to see Dr. Gantt, under whose treatment he was for so long this spring. I 4 A Man's Store | Ore 0 Get into Line Q 8 Stacy |[jj We carry a la rg which to make se Gun Metal, Calf, P COME TO 1 $1,5Q DR. HICKS INJURED. The friends of Dr. Joseph Hid f Calhoun Falls, will regret to lea liat he suffered an injury in one is legs last week and has been u ble to be out. For that reason ^ liss his letter this week. fTe \|rrit s that he expects to be out by ne reek. MR. VISANSKA'S CONDITION. Mr. G. A. Visanska continues vei ick at his home on Main street. I sels better one day and not so w< le next. His general condition nchanged. His many friends coi nue very anxious about him. ****** WANT COLUMN ******* All L/iassinea advertisements ai larged for at the rate of one cei word for each insertion. Min ium, 25c. Three insertions, 50c. OR SALE?The ginnery and ei gines belonging to the Carrie 1 Richey estate. Can be put i running condition in two or thn days. Arrangements can be mac for purchaser to operate at o] stand if desired. If interest write Mrs. H. F. Frazier, . 0. Box 208. Greenville, S. C t OR SALE?A farm of 131 acr< within one mile of Little Riv< church, in Abbeville county. Hs a good four room house and ne barn; 20 acres in bottom land ar 30 acres in good cotton lafid. Als 98 3-4 acres in another place wil a house and barn, 60 acres in cu tivation. Will sell either pla< for $20.00 an acre on easy term Address W. W. Clinkscales, Belto; S. C. OR SALE?20.000 Brick, at $7.f per thousand. Cash on deliver None charged. Abbeville Ice Plant. MONEY TO LEND. I am now in a position to mal >ans of from one to ten thousai ollars, on terms of from five iventy years on farm lands in A eville County. C. E. WILLIAMSON, Special Agent Union-Central Li ns. Co., Abbeville, S. C. ^ _ 'SS if Prosperity and in the Land 3lp reflect Good Timei low at Ha] DT TV LIU 1 1 - ? ilor Made S $15.00 Adams e assortment of lasts lections, embracing < T/u 'ateiit ivhi, viui iviu HE ABBEVILLE C< November 3, 4 & SHIRTS WHAT TO PLANT. cs, As soon as it rains gardeners rn should plant onions, spinach, carrots, of set out cabbage plants, lettuce plants n- and beets. Radishes will come on ve and make a bit of bright color on es your winter table. / Carrots and xt spinach will come on for a very early spring garden and will taste pretcy good along in February. Mr. Roy Power went down to ry Newberry Sunday. Mrs. Power, who *e has been visiting friends, returned with him. is n- Mr. Joe Armistead of Roanoke, Va. ir in the city for a visit to his sister, Mrs. C. D. Baer. * Mr. T. Cunningham of Monterey, whs a business visitor here yesterday. __ # A WONDERFUL ANTISEPTIC fiprms and infection aeerravate ail 0 00 ments and retard healing. Stop that ^ infection at once. Kill the germs and i- get rid of the poisons. For this purpose a single application of Sloan's Liniment not only kills the pain but _ destroys the germs. This neutralizes v infection and gives nature assistance 3 by overcoming congestion and gives I a chance for the free and normal flow of the blood. Sloan's Liniment 5e is an emergency doctor and should be le kept constantly on hand. 25c, 50c. Id The $1.00 size contains six times as , >cj much as the 25c. RUB-MY-TISM _ Will cure Rheumatism, Ncu?s ralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic ?r Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Burns, Old is Sores, Tetter, Ring-Worm, Eo w zema, etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, id used internally or externally. 25c t Good Paint . ie is cheap; and Devoe is not the only s. good paint; it is one of a dozen; and, n, very likely, the only one in your town ?there are hundreds of middling and ^jhad. ; You can see what chance there is ' 'j of another good one there; perhaps j cne in ten at the most. Bad paint is dearest; middling is (dear; costs 2 or 3 times as much as ! the best. iQ No matter about the cost a gallon; ^ that isn't it; the cost a squure foot; to the cost a job; better yet, the cost a b- year. . There's a whole education in paint in this advertisement, fe DEVOE P. B. Speed sells it. | , The Daylight Corner iid! Optimism are I 031 the A ?l la M Mm 8 - r? H UltS \ ; \ I Shoes ? Aft 9 HI and leathers from fjl I ol , Tan Kid, Tail Colt | JUNTY FAIR I S2.3 o |